Abbreviations
AATSR
Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
ADEOS
Advanced Earth Observing Satellite
ADEOS-2
Advanced Earth Observing Satellite 2
AIRS
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
AMSR-E
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System
AMSU
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
ASCAT
Advanced Scatterometer
AVHRR
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
CFSR
Climate Forecast System Reanalysis
COARE
Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Response Experiment
DMSP
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DOE
Department of Energy
ECMWF
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
EIA
Earth incidence angle
ERA-40
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts’ 40-year
reanalysis
ERS-1
Earth Resource Satellite 1
ERS-2
Earth Resource Satellite 2
FGGE
First Global Atmospheric Research Program Global Experiment
GARP
Global Atmospheric Research Experiment
GES
DISC Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center
GOES
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GSSTF
Goddard Space Flight Center Satellite-based Sea surface Turbulent
Fluxes
HOAPS
Hamburg Ocean Atmosphere Parameters and fluxes from Satellite
observations
JMA
Japanese Meteorological Agency
J-OFURO
Japanese Oceanic Fluxes with the Use of Remote Observations
JRA-25
Japanese 25-year ReAnalysis
LHF
Latent heat flux
MERRA
Modern Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications
MGDSST
Merged satellite and in-situ data Global Daily SST
MODIS
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCAR
National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCEP
National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NSCAT
NASA Scatterometer
OAFlux
Objectively Analyzed Air-sea Fluxes
QuikSCAT Quick Scatterometer
SAR
Synthetic Aperture Radars
SASS
Seasat-A Scatterometer System
SHF
Sensible heat flux
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